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Looking back with 20/20: clothing styles back then, even for the rockstars, were damn basic: 99% long-haired, half-naked paler-than-I people in jeans, jean jackets, and wifebeaters. xD

They still need research on Elerium-115

How are we going to have enough turns to intercept all of these flying white TicTacs? No really, if we don't even have anything fast enough to keep-up with whatever the heck these are (if they're real).

(Just don't equip your army with only nuke missiles because they destroy all of the good stuff and psy attacks would cross the streams.)

I think that's what they're referring to. Elerium-115 seems to be the current name* for Element-115, which is said to have antigravity properties and so is how UFOs are able to do their impossible maneuvers.

*Back when I was obsessed with this in the early 2000s I'd never heard of Elerium-115, it was always Element-115. Looks like the origin of the name is actually a game in 1994, but may not have become common until around 2013/2014.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/x-com-ufo-defense

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